Last week, community leaders and environmentalists spoke at a state Senate committee hearing in favor of the Reclaim Renewable Energy Act (Senate Bill 590 / House Bill 718), a bill introduced by Sen. Karen Lewis Young (D-Frederick) and Del. Vaughn Stewart (D-Montgomery) that would reform the state’s renewables program to stop spending millions of dollars to subsidize dirty energy sources like trash incineration and factory farm gas. But industry leaders and their allies were also on hand, making the convoluted case that pollution is actually clean energy.
